Phil Pro Review: MSW 202 Ardent Series

History:

Purchase: Bought it in calgary A.B for about $350CAD. because it looked good and played well... for the price anyway.

What I Like About This Phil Pro MSW 202 Ardent Series: I like the Floyd Rose bridge that comes optional, the headstock look's like a Jackson so that was apealing. the all gold hardware added some class. an ESP style body was verry apealing since i hate fender style guitars.

What I Do NOT Like About The Phil Pro MSW 202 Ardent Series: The floyd Rose is a licened model so the quality lacks verses the real deal, mostly just were the tremolo bar connects. the pickups are not terrible but could use changing. i wasn't a big fan of the paint, it was dark green and showed the wood grain, so i spent another $60 and had it painted black with gold pearl. The volume nob is also not too great, there's not enough in between loud and quiet.

Phil Pro MSW 202 Ardent Series Quality Rating: Body: solid wood (burl top binding) Neck: maple Fretboard: Rosewood 22 fret Gold hardware Floyd Rose bridge The quality is decent for a low priced guitar, It's way better than many other low priced guitars ive seen and is a verry good beginer guitar ive had problems with the bridge, i was ajusting the string hight (action) and i could not get it low enough, i noticed the metal pin inserts into the body had poped up a bit, so i tapped them back down.

Review Summary: A verry good Beginer type guitar, worth spending an extra $100 instead of some yamaha or cheap fender immitation. i dont much play it anymore cause i got a lLes Paul

Rating of this Phil Pro product: 2

This Phil Pro MSW 202 Ardent Series Electric Guitars Review Submitted By: Mike Waddell

Review Date: 2004-11-30